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I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Inspirational
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A life of rest and peace in God is good a life of pain lived in patience is still better but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
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Your own efforts did not bring it to pass, only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.
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To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
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No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
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You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
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If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
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The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
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The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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